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Summer is the easiest time to summit due to limited ice and snow at the peak, says former police officer and alpine rescuer George White says. In the spring the soft slushy-like snow means if climbers fall they don’t slide down the mountain. ANDY JACKSON/Stuff But in the Autumn the mountain is a death trap for inexperienced climbers, he says. “The maunga can bite, and he bites hard.” The 58-year-old New Plymouth man has been involved in countless rescues and body recoveries from the maunga in his time and knows its many moods. The first recorded fatality was in autumn 1891, when 23-year-old William Southward slipped on frozen ice and fell to his death. ....
Richard Phillips and Peter Kirkwood died while trying to summit Taranaki Maunga. (Composite image) He was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, and the couple, who met at university, spent time working, skiing and climbing in the US, before moving to New Zealand in 2018. Kirkwood had climbed “numerous peaks” in the European Alps, Scottish Highlands, North American Rockies, and New Zealand’s Southern Alps. He was looking forward to introducing his baby daughter, Elaine Sierra, to the mountains the family “loved so much”, Kerrie Ann Kirkwood said. “He was a loyal, considerate and adventurous soul, who will be dearly missed by his friends in the UK, the US, and in Christchurch. ....
Crew on board a helicopter, dispatched as part of a search and rescue operation, found the two climbers dead shortly before midnight. Their bodies could not be retrieved at the time, and conditions on the mountain stymied efforts by police alpine rescue experts to bring them out on Wednesday. They were recovered from the mountain, with the help of helicopter, shortly after 8am on Thursday. Anthony Wedgwood/Stuff Richard Phillips and Peter Kirkwood died while trying to summit Taranaki Maunga. Phillips’ grieving partner requested privacy when approached for comment on Wednesday night, referring inquiries to Tonkin and Taylor. Tonkin and Taylor group managing director Dr Tim Fisher said those at the company were mourning the loss of “two of our treasured people”. ....